Ilisimatusarfik educates for both the private and public labour market, and does research and programmes within humanities, social and health science.

Ilisimatusarfik highly prioritises cooperation with the outside world, locally as well as internationally.

Ilisimatusarfik wishes to bridge the university world with the business community and the public sector, because in a collaboration between the sectors, everyone is contributing strong professionalism and combining new thinking and innovation in a fruitful system.

Ilisimatusarfik is an arctic university that creates knowledge and innovation in a region developing rapidly. Broadly, deeply and across: Through research, education and cooperation Ilisimatusarfik is Shaping the Arctic.